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VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC)

The most exciting announcement from VMworld US in my opinion has to be VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to the AWS Cloud Infrastructure, and enables customers to run production applications across vSphere-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Delivered, sold and supported by VMware as an on-demand service, customers can immediately capture the benefits of cloud, without going through the painful and costly migration process so often associated with hybrid cloud models. With AWS’s breadth of cloud services (e.g. storage, databases, analytics, etc.) readily accessible to applications running within VMC, customers get the best of both worlds, an environment perfectly suited for running existing VMware based applications, as well as an environment flexible enough to grow and support new cloud-native based applications. Furthermore, as more SDDC components are adopted, the value derived by customers becomes exponential. VMC itself becomes a catalyst for the adoption of NSX, VSAN, SRM, and the vRealize Suite.

I have already blogged about some of the announcements due around NSX and VMC integration and VMware Cloud Services and their ability to provide a way of homogenising the cloud and providing a mechanism for you to consume all the cloud providers and one of these being VMC.

Importance of VMware Cloud on AWS

Jointly engineered solution delivers the best of VMware and AWS for customers

VMware

Leading compute,storage and network virtualisation capabilities

Support for broad range of workloads

De-facto standard for the enterprise DC

AWS

Flexible consumption economics

Broadest set of cloud services

Global scale and reach

The Solution: VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware SSDC stack running on AWS

Compute (vSphere) , Storage (VSAN) and networking (NSX)

Direct access to vCenter, including full API/CLI support

Delivered as-a-service (VMware lifecycle fully managed)

Consistent operational model enables Hybrid Cloud

Full support for existing and new applications

Existing management tooling layers on top

Hybrid and Cloud-only deployment options

Leverage cloud economics, aligning capacity and demand

Single bill for VMware software +AWS infrastructure

Possible discounts for those with large existing VMware licence counts

Consume elastically scalable SDDC clusters

On-demand or subscription

Leverage global AWS footprint

I personally am planning to attend quite a substantial amount of the VMware Cloud on AWS sessions and Hands On Labs and will be blogging about the portions of this so instead of having amassive blog posting here I will be doing multiple, the sessions i am attending at VMworld US are: